Flower vases made out of Coca-Cola Bottles

*the groom's mother with the bride

*the brides mother on the far left

*the bride and me

I had so much fun helping decorate for one of my good friends Ashley Rodrick's bridal shower. I was in charge of party favors and flowers. So why not combine the two? I had a tight budget so I decided to recycle classic Coca-Cola glass bottles into vases so people could take the flower arrangements home with them. Ashley loves color so I ended up spray painting the bottles with rubber bands on them using floral spray paint.  I used Flat White floral spray paint for the base coat and the colors I used on top were:  Robin Egg Blue, Aspen Yellow, Orange and Perfect Pink. These bottles totally help transform her friend, Bridgette's backyard into an elegant bridal shower. After adding simple colorful flowers and vintage bed sheets for tablecloths you have a very inviting bridal shower luncheon table and a vases for all the guests to take home with them with fresh cut flowers all for under 100$. I hope to make more of these and sale them on Etsy soon!

Yes, Ashley and Peter are getting married!

ashley & peter are getting married! Hats off to them!

Ashley Rodrick and Peter Tomsic are engaged! I have known them since their relationship started over five years ago while Ashley was a freshman in college. Now we are two years out of college and Ashley is getting married in September. I am so very happy with these photos that I have to say that they are probably my all time favorite photos I have ever taken. That is why their is so many. I had a problem trying to edit down. We photographed around sunset on Lake Erie in East Cleveland, Ohio. My favorite place and time to shoot. Enjoy.

My new favorite clothing store....All Saints Spitalfields

So my last trip to New York City I fell in love with this clothing store that some how I had never heard of, called All Saints. I just loved their window and store displays. They had a great collection of old wooden shoe horns, sewing machines and gears. Very industrial.

I think I instantly fell in love with all of their clothes, especially the Aztec Dazzle dress posted above. I have not been able to stop thinking about it since I left New York City almost a month ago. It retails for 350$. It is of course out of my price range so I can only dream of how I would style it. I love mixing pretty with rugged so I went through and picked out some of the accessories on All Saints website help finish the outfit. I love mixing different fabrics such as the sequins with the leather and the fringe with suede. It helps give off this sexy, yet classy, bad-ass vibe that I have been craving lately. Ugh, I love clothes and I love fashion.

Be sure to check out the store in Soho or find out where the nearest one is to you.

The Highline!

There are other places in Manhattan that has trees besides Central Park. All you have to do is look up next time you are in Chelsea. Yes, The Highline is an above ground park built over an old train track. No trains have run on the Highline track since 1980. The Highline Park is probably one of the coolest recycled, renovated, eco-friendly spaces I have ever seen. It is free and definitely worth checking out next time you are in the city.

http://www.thehighline.org/

I love taking pictures of billboards and advertisements. I found this advertisement rather amusing.

I found it kind of cool to turn this photo of a modern movie poster into an old timey looking photograph. The old architecture really adds to it.

Looking across to New Jersey I believe from the top of Highline park.

*underneath The Highline

Chelsea market in New York City!

Below is a screen shot of all of the different retail and restaurants located in Chelsea Market. www.chelseamarket.com

The Chelsea Market in New York City is very cool filled with little one of a kind shops. Its weird you feel like you are underground yet outside at the same time. You can get to the newly renovated Highline Park from Chelsea Market. We just stopped in Chelsea Market real quick to grab some ice cream and coffee. I grabbed some delicious Butter Pecan Ice Cream from the Ronnybrook Farm Dairy while my my family grabbed some coffee and we chilled in front of Amy's Breads where you can find delicious baguettes. The whole time we were sitting down the line never ended.

So recently I have found myself very jealous of people having an iphone with the instagram app. I love how instant you can turn a regular snapshot into art. My friend found me a link to someone that makes actions through photoshop that I can download for free. So I decided to test them out on some of these pics. I am pretty satisfied. I am intrigued to make my own now. Check it out @ http://dbox.tumblr.com/post/5426249009/instagram-filters-as-photoshop-

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